Re: copyright??

[Bob Ebert]

At 7:54 AM -0800 3/3/99, Jason Dawes wrote:
>At 08:37 AM 3/3/99 +0100, you wrote:
>>I guess you cant copyright an idea
>
>But you _can_ patent it.

You patent processes, not ideas.  You copyright expressions, not ideas.  I
don't know of any legal protection at all for ideas.  (And I think that's a
good thing!)

Most of the work in generating a pattent application seems to be turning an
idea into a process-oriented description.  Of course, that's also most of
the work required to exploit an idea.  :)

                        --Bob